Systray jobs and notifications

[Jamboarder]

Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote
> ...
> so to be ++ verbose, this would give us (where N = notification, P = job in 
> progress, C = job completed):
> 
> Scenario        Text
> ------------        ------
> 3 N            3
> 3 N, 2 P        3/5
> 3 N, 1 C, 1 P    4/5
> 1 C, 2 P        1/3
> 2 P            0/2
> 2 C            2
> 1 N 1C        2
> 
> the text then become a "how many things are in here" with an extra note of 
> "how many of those things are completed" if there are some items that are not 
> completed yet.


If the animation already communicates that jobs are in progress, perhaps it would be sufficient to simply show one number that is the total(N+C+P). This keeps the at-a-glance information communicated to the user relatively simple. It would arguably cover most use cases where user is primarily interested in how many "notifications" and are any of them still "doing something".  For the more detailed information about how many and which jobs are in progress or complete, the user can click to see.

Just a suggestion... Hope this helps,
Andrew (Jamboarder) Lake